aids and devices

A flip chart that introduces various features of nonfiction text, including tables, graphs, maps, charts, and indexes, in the context of a book about animals, with color photographs and guiding questions.

Contains reproducible mini-books and three-dimensional manipulatives designed to help students in grades two and three learn about the water cycle, climate, storms, and other aspects of the weather.

Contains reproducible forms and checklists that may be used to assess the reading strengths and weaknesses of students in grades four to eight, and includes a companion CD.

Presents a comprehensive resource guide to the writing process for fifth through twelfth-grade English and writing teachers; and includes reproducible activities and 100 mini-lessons that focus on the various types of writing, writing techniques, and the mechanics of writing.

Contains one hundred reproducible graphic organizers that are designed to help develop the reading, writing, and content areas skills of fifth- through twelfth-grade students and promote active learning.

A collection of eighteen planning guides for creating research activities and units that emphasize critical thinking rather than gathering facts.

Provides information for teachers on how to integrate the Internet into their classrooms, focusing on how to use the technology for teaching and learning; and includes examples from real-life classrooms, as well as addresses for helpful sites.

Provides an explanation of the trait model writing program, and includes assessment tools and teaching materials, including forty-eight activities with reproducible pages and twenty-four lesson plans.

Presents a social studies teaching resource with summaries of various diaries, including "The Death of My Country," "A Rebel's Daughter," "No Safe Harbour," and "Turned Away," with a discussion of historical context, extended activities, reproducibles, a bibliography for each, and a timeline of Canadian history.

Offers guidance and tools to teach basic writing skills in fourth through sixth grade classrooms with the Four Square Writing Method, providing samples for expository, narrative, descriptive, and persuasive writing, along with practice prompts and tips for using the method to teach across the curriculum.